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Miguel

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2019-01-25
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2021-08-30
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un-security-council

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  1. “The Council, with its responsibility for international peace and security mandated by the Charter of the United Nations, cannot afford to ignore the suffering of the Palestinian people anymore. We need to urgently find a peaceful, just, lasting and comprehensive settlement to the dire conflict.”

    2021-08-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8847 (2021) · source

  2. “On the more positive side, we welcome the recent agreement between the United Nations and Qatar to return some Qatari subsidies to Gaza, and we encourage the international community to help alleviate the imminent humanitarian crisis. Furthermore, we reiterate our ongoing urgent call for the international community to continue its support to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East in order to fulfil its mandate of providing services to Palestine refugees. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines remains committed to the establishment of an independent and viable Palestinian State, living side by side in peace with Israel, and a comprehensive peace in the region, in accordance with the relevant Security Council and General Assembly resolutions and the internationally agreed parameters.”

    2021-08-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8847 (2021) · source

  3. “In line with our long-standing position on that issue, we call upon the Israeli authorities to halt the demolition and seizure of Palestinian houses and property, in accordance with its obligations as an occupying Power under international humanitarian law, and to cease the policy of settlement construction and expansion. The dire humanitarian situation in Gaza remains a source of serious concern. Humanitarian operations continue to be seriously affected by the 14-year Israeli blockade of Gaza, restricting access to humanitarian needs, relief and reconstruction to meet the needs of the people in Gaza. We reiterate our call on Israel to lift the blockade, which continues to critically affect all aspects of life in Gaza. Moreover, we call on the Security Council to demand that humanitarian aid be allowed to enter Gaza without restrictions.”

    2021-08-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8847 (2021) · source

  4. “During August, Israel, the occupying Power, continued its illegal and inhuman practice throughout the occupied Palestinian territory, injuring and killing Palestinian civilians, including children, in violation of international law. We reiterate our call for immediate international protection for the Palestinian people, in accordance with international human rights law and international humanitarian law, including the Fourth Geneva Convention. It is also imperative that the relevant parties respect the terms of the 21 May ceasefire agreement in order to prevent a further escalation of violence on the ground. We remain profoundly concerned about the continuing Israeli demolitions and seizures of Palestinian structures in East Jerusalem and areas of the occupied West Bank, displacing Palestinian families.”

    2021-08-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8847 (2021) · source

  5. “Let me start by thanking Special Coordinator Wennesland for his briefing and endeavours in pursuit of a solution to the ongoing crisis in the occupied Palestinian territory. The situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question, remains one of the most important unresolved issues of peace and security in the world today. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines holds the firm view that multilateral efforts, including those of the Security Council and the Quartet, could contribute to the achievement of a just, comprehensive and lasting peace in the Middle East, in accordance with international law and the relevant United Nations resolutions.”

    2021-08-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8847 (2021) · source

  6. “Saint Vincent and the Grenadines would be honoured and humbled by the opportunity to bring principled analysis and problem solving to this issue in the Security Council and to build bridges to that end.”

    2019-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8451 (2019) · source

  7. “Moreover, the historical injustices done to Africa must be made right as we navigate the myriad and complex peace and security issues on the continent. However, we must be careful not to present a false choice among those issues. We have to deal with them all, no matter how inconvenient climate-related security may be. We raise our voice in this organ to call on carbon emitters to make deep cuts to stop the causes of climate change, and we echo the call to make the Security Council more aware of, and more sensitive to, the terrible consequences for international peace and security. If we first recognize climate as a security threat and then work in solidarity to protect all people from it, we are on the right track.”

    2019-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8451 (2019) · source

  8. “We draw a direct, causal connection between any such abdication and the future death and destruction that island States face as the result of increasingly frequent and intense weather events. The climate threat is unique, unprecedented and urgent. Because ofthat, it is often difficult to deal with. But that is no reason to sweep it under the rug. The rise of climate change as the existential threat of our era has not replaced the persistent peril of armed conflict across the globe. The human suffering in Syria, Yemen and Myanmar demands greater international attention and action. Similarly, the potential threats to international peace and security posed by tensions on the Korean peninsula, among the Gulf States and in the State of Palestine require persistent and prioritized diplomacy.”

    2019-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8451 (2019) · source

  9. “The dire need for economy-wide carbon reduction makes climate change an irrefutably political matter, and its effects make it an existential matter of the highest order, it goes to the very existence of our country. In all of that, we must admit that some have far more responsibility for those assaults on our shores than others. As ironic as it is, those least responsible suffer the most, for example, small island developing States and the Sahel. In effect, major emitters that fail to set and honour ambitious mitigation pledges are committing a direct act of hostility against small island developing States, and we ought to resist their recklessness against our interests.”

    2019-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8451 (2019) · source

  10. “Saint Vincent and the Grenadines congratulates the Dominican Republic, a member of our Caribbean family, on raising this important discussion in the Security Council We would like to align ourselves with the statement delivered by the representative of Barbados on behalf of the Caribbean Community, and with the statement to be delivered by the representative of Belize, on behalf of the Alliance of Small Island States. We reaffirm that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is the primary body for addressing climate change, while also recognizing that we need a multi-pronged approach to fight it. Those two ideas are not mutually exclusive.”

    2019-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8451 (2019) · source